Refusing to help stop MAGA from taking power is flawed.

That’s the beauty of it - you can!

“I don’t have a solution to the problem, I’m just here to reject the moral imperfections in yours.”

I’ve heard that Amazon’s IT is very siloed, with very little internal collaboration. I don’t know if it’s cutthroat competitive or what, but one guy I worked for said he had seen so much wacky work from people who had come from Amazon, especially if it was their first and only job out of school, he didn’t even interview people anymore if they had much Amazon on their resumes.

side note: My all-time favorite linux utility is “fuck”. When you make a mistake and get a command line error, you type the word fuck and it looks at what you previously typed and the error message, and tries to figure out your mistake and what you should have typed instead. Then it types that in for you. If it’s correct all you have to do is hit Enter. Or you can edit first, but it’s usually right. Amazing tool, and doesn’t even use AI, just a list of common errors. It’s been around for years and years. Its mere existence really captures the whole culture of linux IMO.

aka The Magic Word.

Back in the 60s or early 70s the authorities rejected Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane trying to name her kid “God”. But Frank Zappa got away with Dweezil and Moon Unit. And now there’s Elon Musk’s kid, “X Æ A-12”.

So… how long you been at Amazon?

On the plus side you aren’t invading Poland over it. /s

They might be upset over GNU meaning “Gnu’s Not Unix”. Or just ran out of meds.

Bumper sticker: ASK ME ABOUT MY BAG OF FLASH DRIVES

Currently basking in the glow of installing Mint and finally kissing Win10 goodbye last night. Today I’m just sitting here quietly installing software and realizing how easy ti is, but I pity da nex foo who strikes up a conversation about computers.

A very typical arc for innovation is that the first organizational goal is getting people to buy it, then the next goal is getting them to keep buying it again and again. The original visionaries who were trying to solve a problem tend to lose interest by then and drop out, and the money weasels completely take over. New versions are released on a marketing schedule regardless of whether they’re necessary, and the thing begins to suck progressively more and more until some new player shows up to solve that problem.

Rinse and repeat.

Ah, so that’s who this guy is. Thanks! Tbh I had no clue and thought it might be George R. R. Martin.

I think you pretty much just now wrote a landing page, you just need to turn those into links and host that page somewhere.

Sure, you could create a database or JSON file with attributes of each thing and use React or Node.js to generate the UI, but that doesn’t seem necessary for a need on this scale - when things change just edit the landing page. I’ve been keeping links to my soft copies of D&D books and stuff with a simple HTML page for years, and I’m a web dev. No need to do work the requirements don’t demand.

LOL yeah that’s about right.

What I’m talking about is the popular stand that offenses against public opinion are unforgivable and unredeemable. Nobody should buy from company X, nobody should listen to musician Y, nobody see any more movies with actor Z in them, etc.

I personally agree Jeeps suck, but that’s dodging my question.

Yeah that’s my reaction. Also public transportation changed my life for the year and a half I used it, by eating up zn extra hour a day of my life. My 15-minute each way car commute became 50 each way, very consistently. I finally got fed up with it and went back to driving.